grapple plant

Bot.: The name given at the Cape of Good Hope to Uncaria procumbens , one of the Pedaliacese. The name was given because the hooks surrounding the fruit grapple or lay hold of the clothes of people, the fur of animals, ., and are difficult to disen gage. *grăp-ple-ment, s . [Eng. grapple ; -ment.] A grapple, a grappling, a close struggle. "[They) down him stayed With their rude hands and griesly grapple ment." Spenser: F. Q., II. xi. 29. IMG:content-0708.png:[blocks in formation] To grasp at : To try to seize or gain; to catch graptolite-schists, graptolitic-schists, s . pl . Geol.: Schists of Lower Silurian age containing at; to struggle after. graptolites with their slope as a rule E. N. E. and W.S. W. grăp-to-li-tēs, *grăp-to-lith-us, s . [Greek graptos -painted, marked with letters, written, and lithos =stone.] Palæontology : *1. ( Of the form graptolithus): A genus belonging to the mineral kingdom, instituted by Linnæus, and placed by him in his cla Fo il i a and his order Petrific at a. He defines it as a petrifaction resembling a picture. It is quite a medley. One species resembles a map; a second is variegated Florentine marble; another looks like a fo il alga; a fourth is a recent serpula on oysters and other shells; and a fifth dendritic markings on agates. None of these are graptolites in the modern sense. 2. ( Of the form graptolites): The typical genus of the sub-cla (formerly the family) Graptolitide, Only one side has a row of cellules.